Steve Wozniak has a new passion: Space junk

We share with you a post published in ‘CNN Business’ in which you can learn more about Steve Wozniak "Steve Wozniak has a new — and potentially lucrative — passion: Space junk. But the money, according to Wozniak's co-founder in this new venture, couldn't be further from the point. "I don't think Steve [Wozniak] gives a damn about making another 10 cents, and I really couldn't care less," Alex Fielding, a longtime business acquaintance of Wozniak's who will serve as CEO of the new venture, called Privateer, told CNN Business. Privateer's mission is to develop better tracking of objects in space, and to use this data to help avert disastrous collisions. To aid in this effort, Wozniak and Fielding brought in Moriba Jah, a PhD and orbital mechanics professor who has dedicated most of his life to academia and attempting to raise awareness about the ever-growing threat posed by the proliferation of debris and garbage in outer space. It's a threat that could wipe out satellites that provide communications services to Earth or even bring space travel to a grinding halt. (...)" Read More: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/01/tech/space-junk-steve-wozniak-privateer-scn/index.html

Peter Diamandis: Bitcoin has an opportunity to become the dominant currency

We share with you a post published in ‘Bitcoin Magazine’ in which you can learn more about Peter Diamandis:  "Bitcoin equals abundance and can uplift every man, woman, and child in the world, according to serial entrepreneur, technologist, New York Times best-selling author, and TED Speaker Peter Diamandis in an exclusive interview with Bitcoin Magazine.   “Bitcoin is digitized currency and energy, and it is going to dematerialize a lot of institutions and demonetize and democratize access to this,” Diamandis said. “We’re gonna have regulatory challenges and institutional challenges for some time to come, but there’s a tipping point, at which point it’s irreversible.”   Diamandis explained that historically, exponential breakthroughs in different areas of society have shared a set of characteristics, namely their ability to be deceptive, disruptive, and digitized at first, which enables them to then demonetize, dematerialize, and democratize old technology in favor of new developments.(...)" Read more: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/peter-diamandis-says-bitcoin-equals-abundance

Antonio Nieto-Rodríguez: The Project Economy Has Arrived

We share with you a post published in ‘Harvard Business Review’ in which you can learn more about Antonio Nieto-Rodríguez:  "During the 20th century, operations (which involve the running of organizations) created tremendous value, and they did so through advances in efficiency and productivity. But for most of the current century, productivity growth in Western economies has been almost flat, despite the explosion of the internet, shorter product life cycles, and exponential advances in AI and robotics.   Meanwhile, projects (which involve the changing of organizations) are increasingly driving both short-term performance and long-term value creation—through more-frequent organizational transformations, faster development of new products, quicker adoption of new technologies, and so on. This is a global phenomenon. In Germany, for example, projects have been rising steadily as a percentage of GDP since at least 2009, and in 2019 they accounted for as much as 41% of the total. Precise data is hard to come by for other countries, but similar percentages are likely to apply in most other Western economies. The percentages are probably even higher in China and other leading Asian economies, where project-based work has long been an important source of growth. And we’re only just getting started. In 2017, the Project Management…

Claudio Fernández-Aráoz: The High Cost of Poor Succession Planning

We share with you a post published in ‘Business Revie’ in which you can learn more about Claudio Fernández-Aráoz: "In our opinion large companies’ excessive tendency to hire leaders from outside is one of the biggest problems with succession practices. This propensity incurs three major kinds of costs: underperformance at companies that hire ill-suited external CEOs, the loss of intellectual capital in the C-suites of the organizations that executives leave behind, and for those companies promoting from within, the lower performance of ill-prepared successors.   A landmark study that Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School conducted years ago sheds light on the first kind of cost. Khurana and Nohria examined the impact that different types of CEO succession had on operating returns in 200 organizations over a 15-year period. They compared four scenarios: (1) an insider promoted in a firm doing reasonably well; (2) an insider promoted in a firm doing poorly; (3) an outsider hired in a firm doing reasonably well; and (4) an outsider hired in a firm doing poorly. (...)"   Read more: https://hbr.org/2021/05/the-high-cost-of-poor-succession-planning      

Rahaf Harfoush: Balancing Trust with Innovation

We are sharing with you this new post writed by our speaker Rahaf Harfoush This is a translated version of an article that was originally posted in French at Harvard Business Review France covering the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos. You can read it here.   At Davos, one of the central themes in addition to climate change was the role of technology in business and society. The implications of using these new tools are broad and expansive, with everything from cybersecurity, privacy, and artificial intelligence to automation, re-skilling and the future of work.   As governments debate how to best regulate these technologies on a policy level, business leaders are grappling with a major strategic consideration: the role of AI ethics within their own organizations and how that applies to the tools they are using or creating. The “Decade of Trust”   In a panel entitled “Walking the Tech Tightrope: How to Balance Trust with Innovation,” the question of what responsibilities businesses have defining ethical technology practices was a main point of discussion. Specifically, how can organizations balance unlocking new market opportunities while also protecting society from the more harmful applications of these tools?   Read more: https://medium.com/rahafs-digital-culture-analysis/balancing-trust-with-innovation-b0d90b2afdf0

María Belón, the moment the tsunami appeared is as vivid as in The Impossible.

We share with you a post published in ‘Oprah Daily’ in which you can learn more about our speaker María Belón:   "(...) Miraculously, the family whose story is told in The Impossible all survived the disaster. Though the Bennet family in The Impossible is British, the real family that inspired the film is from Spain. María Belón, a physician, and her husband Enrique Álvarez were in Khao Lak, Thailand with their three sons, Lucas, Simón and Tomás when the tsunami struck. Here's a look back at their remarkable story, and where the family is now. (...)   Belón's account of the moment the tsunami appeared is nearly as vivid as the scene in The Impossible. “We started to hear a very horrible sound. I was looking around thinking maybe this is just in my mind. No one recognized the sound. It felt like the Earth was coming apart but everything looked perfect. I was facing the sea and saw a huge black wall. I didn’t think it was the sea. I thought it was a black wall coming to get us," she told The Mirror in 2017.   Afterwards, Belón was swept away and separated from her husband and sons, who were in the swimming pool. According to…

Dorie Clark: A Career Detour Doesn’t Have to Compromise Your Long-Term Goals

We share with you a interview published in ‘Harvard Business Review’ in which you can learn more about our speaker Dorie Clark:    "For almost every professional, there are times when your career path deviates from what you might have hoped — for instance, a layoff, reassignment, relocation, or the need to take time off for health issues or caregiving. The pandemic, of course, has compounded the situation, especially for working parents, who may be facing multiple stressors at once.   In the short term, the situation is clear: If you or your spouse has lost your job, you need to earn income. If in-person schooling isn’t an option, someone has to stay home with the kids and supervise virtual learning. And if you’re the primary caregiver to children or other family members, you need to ensure you have the flexibility to handle any situation at home that comes your way. (...)" Read More: https://hbr.org/2021/03/a-career-detour-doesnt-have-to-compromise-your-long-term-goals?ab=hero-main-image    

Peter Fisk: 7 Business Shifts

We are sharing with you this new post writed by our speaker Peter Fisk:    "How do we create a better business, and a better future?   Creating this better future requires change in how we think and behave, the way in which you design, manage and lead your business. The mindset shifts are profound, requiring leaders to let go of old behaviours and beliefs, and to embrace new paradigms and possibilities. There are 7 shifts to the future:   Aurora … Recode your future … from profit machine to enlightened progress Komorebi … Recode your growth … from uncertain survival to futuristic growth Transcendent … Recode your market … from marginal competition to market creating Ingenuity … Recode your innovation … From technology obsession to human ingenuity Ubuntu … Recode your organisation … From passive hierarchies to dynamic ecosystems Syzygy … Recode your transformation … From incremental change to sustained transformation Awestruck … Recode your leadership … From good managers to extraordinary leaders Together these 7 shifts begin to shape a better future for your business, delivered through the 49 codes. Shift 1 … Aurora … Recode your future How will you reinvent your business for a better future? From profit machine to enlightened progress Aurora is the Latin word for dawn, originating from the ancient Roman goddess of the dawn. In…

Chris Gardner: The Only Way is Up

We share with you a post published in ‘Entrepreneur’ in which you can learn more about our speaker Chris Gardner.    "In his twenties, and half-way through his years-long medical training, Christopher Paul Gardner was advised to rethink “that whole idea of becoming a doctor.” Ever since then, Gardner has been considering more lucrative career options. Today, however, he finds himself as the CEO of Happyness- in legal terms, that translates into “the founder and CEO of Christopher Gardner International Holdings.” Reflecting on that piece of advice he received all those years ago, and why he followed it several times in the decades that ensued, Gardner says, “I don’t believe that it is necessary to let go of the dream, but you might have to use different tactics. You also have to always be mindful of, ‘Is this what I want to do?’ Because only by doing something that you want to do, will you put your heart and soul into it. That’s what works for me.”   I had been worried that Gardner would be too tired for this interview- it had been a busy day for him at the 2019 Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival. He had delivered an hour-long talk to…

Antonio Nieto-Rodríguez: Projects – the greatest disruption of the 21st century!

We share with you a interview published in ‘Strefa’ in which you can learn more about our speaker Antonio Nieto-Rodríguez: "Antonio, thank you very much for accept­ing my invitation to the interview. You are the world’s leading champion in project management and strategy implementa­tion. You do a lot in promoting the pro­ject management skills around the world, especially within senior management to show it’s crucial to manage projects in the right way. Could you highlight the key moments, key steps in your career which led you to your present position?   It’s a pleasure to be here with PMI Poland which I have very good memories of when I was there a few years ago. I love what you are doing, your team, the volunteers, so thank you for the opportunity to share a bit about my views. To answer your ques­tion, the highlights of my career – they were failures and maybe that’s what made me just fight harder to get what I wanted or the message that I wanted to share. I think that one big point or step in my career was when I was working for a very large consulting company and they did not appreciate…